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Dream Labs said its models learn how the physical world works from video and can control new robots without any data.

Dream Labs launches robot-control API alongside $90 million seed round

Dream Labs announced a $90 million seed round led by B Capital and Kindred Ventures.
The company launched Dream API for translating camera feeds and natural-language instructions into robot actions.
Dream-1 is claimed to transfer learning across robots from different manufacturers.
The company also offers fine-tuning from a small batch of demonstration data.

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DT Editorial Team·Oct 22, 2026·via therobotreport.com

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Synthetic public opinion polling: AI personas don't always change their minds like real voters do

Synthetic polling faces a key test: can AI voters change?

Synthetic polling creates LLM-based personas from polling and demographic information.
Researchers caution that real respondents can change views over time while AI personas may remain anchored to their initial instructions.
The approach could reduce the cost and logistics of surveys, but its ability to represent opinion change remains unresolved.

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DT Editorial Team·Oct 20, 2026·via phys.org

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AI facial health recognition tools help physicians assess age and survival risk to guide personalized treatment

AI Face Analysis May Help Assess Cancer Treatment Fitness

FAHR-Face was trained on more than 40 million facial images.
Two derived tools estimate biological age and predict cancer-survival outcomes.
Researchers say the tools are intended to support—not replace—clinical judgment.
Validation, privacy and equity would be central to any clinical deployment.

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DT Editorial Team·Oct 20, 2026·via medicalxpress.com

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Have a Meta business account? You’re consenting to AI scraping now, legal experts say

Meta Business Terms Raise New Questions Over AI Web Crawling

Updated terms are reported to take effect October 30, 2026.
The terms describe automated crawling of domains associated with users’ products or services.
Meta said the update consolidates pre-existing conditions.

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DT Editorial Team·Oct 19, 2026·via zdnet.com

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‘I felt disgusted’: MEP speaks out over nude deepfakes and urges EU action

Sexualised Deepfakes Target European Parliament Members, Renewing Calls for EU Action

Agora Digitale Transformation found 50 MEPs had been targeted by sexualised deepfakes.
Forty-six of the 50 identified targets were women.
Lena Schilling urged EU action and warned that such abuse can deter women from political life.

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DT Editorial Team·Oct 18, 2026·via theguardian.com

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World Bank says ‘small AI’ could transform developing countries

World Bank Pushes ‘Small AI’ for Local Development

The World Bank is promoting specialized AI models designed for local needs.
The systems could run on phones with limited connectivity and support local languages.
Officials say infrastructure and public safeguards are prerequisites for adoption.

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DT Editorial Team·Oct 18, 2026·via theguardian.com

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Man sitting on a green couch.

AI Benchmarks Need to Become a Science, Not a Scoreboard

Moritz Hardt says the AI benchmarking ecosystem is broken but potentially repairable.
Benchmarks can define research priorities as well as measure technical performance.
Better evaluation should clarify what a score measures and where it fails.

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DT Editorial Team·Oct 17, 2026·via quantamagazine.org

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A mannequin’s face covered in pixels.

Apple Tightens App Store Rules on AI ‘Nudify’ Apps

Apple now explicitly requires developers to prevent and remove nonconsensual intimate imagery.
Developers may be removed for inadequate safeguards or for failing to fix violations after notice.
Apple also clarified that post-approval nudification features can violate its bait-and-switch rule.

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DT Editorial Team·Oct 17, 2026·via theverge.com

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Tech market sell-off deepens amid fears over US inflation and AI debt

AI-linked tech shares slide as inflation fears rattle global markets

South Korea’s Kospi 200 fell more than 8%, triggering circuit breakers.
U.S. September inflation rose 3.7%, above expectations.
The decline spread across chipmakers and AI-linked investors in Asia and the U.S.

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DT Editorial Team·Oct 15, 2026·via theguardian.com

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AI Came for Math. Now It’s Chasing the Rest of Science

AI’s Scientific Reach Expands Beyond Mathematics

MIT-linked researchers tested frontier AI models on theoretical problems with later-published solutions.
The best systems rose from about 2% to about 35% correct between mid-2024 and mid-2026.
The study was limited to theory questions not requiring simulations or experiments.

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DT Editorial Team·Oct 14, 2026·via wired.com

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Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems

Google launches Gemini 4 Argon for complex professional work

Gemini 4 Argon is now available globally through Google developer and consumer AI products.
Google says the model is aimed at complex, multi-step work in coding, science, law, finance and cybersecurity.
The company introduced API pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.

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DT Editorial Team·Oct 13, 2026·via blog.google

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AFL tells Sportsbet to stop using players in AI generated content

AFL Orders Sportsbet to Remove AI Videos of Players

The AFL told Sportsbet to stop using players in AI-generated social content without permission.
Sportsbet removed the reported Instagram videos after Guardian Australia contacted it.
The AFL Players’ Association raised concerns about collective-agreement limits on image use.

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DT Editorial Team·Oct 13, 2026·via theguardian.com

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A ghostly orange hand reaches out from an AI chip.

AI Agent Incidents Put Accountability in Focus

A reported Australian government incident has intensified scrutiny of AI agents.
The article describes additional incidents involving agents and security controls.
Scope, authorization and reporting are key safety requirements.
Accountability remains with the people and organizations that develop and deploy agents.

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DT Editorial Team·Oct 13, 2026·via livescience.com

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AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety

Microsoft President Calls for AI Safety Rules and Kill Switches

Brad Smith called for tougher AI safety rules and emergency brakes.
He said firms should have obligations to victims when systems are breached by rogue AI agents.
Satya Nadella also called for observable, testable and containable AI systems.

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DT Editorial Team·Oct 12, 2026·via theguardian.com

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UK to strengthen cyber defences as minister calls for AI firms to increase safety efforts

UK signals tougher AI safety expectations and stronger cyber defences

UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan is expected to call for stronger safety efforts from frontier-model developers.
The government is also preparing to strengthen cyber defences and expand domestic AI infrastructure.
Warnings about potential theft of cutting-edge models have intensified the security debate.

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DT Editorial Team·Oct 12, 2026·via theguardian.com

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Safety prompts can help AI models make safer clinical choices

Safety Prompts Cut Harmful AI Choices in Clinical Tests

Mount Sinai researchers evaluated 20 language models in clinical scenarios.
Potentially harmful choices fell from 16.6% to 10.1% after a brief safety reminder.
The reminder reduced harmful choices in 19 of the 20 models tested.
The findings support evaluating prompts and workflow context alongside model accuracy.

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DT Editorial Team·Oct 11, 2026·via medicalxpress.com

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California’s No Robo Bosses Act Puts Humans Back in AI Firing Decisions

California’s SB 947 bars employers from fully outsourcing discipline and termination decisions to AI.
The law requires human review and disclosure of reasons and data used in covered decisions.
It takes effect July 1, 2027 and may inform broader workplace-AI policy debates.

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DT Editorial Team·Oct 11, 2026·via zdnet.com

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Linus Torvalds at Open Source Summit Europe 2026

Linus Torvalds Sees a Role for AI in Programming

Torvalds says he now likes using AI as a programming tool.
He distinguishes hobby and learning use from work on critical software.
He sees AI as helpful for finding bugs but stresses careful human review for Linux.

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DT Editorial Team·Oct 11, 2026·via zdnet.com

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AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals

AI bots are being used to occupy phone scammers

Apate says it uses AI bots to divert and engage phone scammers.
The company says its platform includes around 350,000 bots and has gathered fraud intelligence.
The approach aims to reduce scammers’ available time while identifying active infrastructure.

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DT Editorial Team·Oct 10, 2026·via wired.com

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UK must not be beholden to foreign AI, says head of Alan Turing Institute

UK AI resilience debate sharpens as Turing Institute urges domestic capability

George Williamson says the UK should not rely solely on foreign AI systems for critical functions.
The Turing Institute is making national resilience a key priority under new leadership.
Recent restrictions on model access illustrate the strategic risk of external dependence.

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DT Editorial Team·Oct 10, 2026·via theguardian.com

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